Discretion Welcomed

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31344, 14 April 1967, Page 1

Discretion Welcomed

Should secondary schoolgirls wear jewellery to school? This was debated by the board of governors of Burnside High School last evening. The headmaster (Mr C. Cross) sought the approval of the board to have inserted In the school regulations a rule that “all jewellery, including ear keeper rings,” was unacceptable for wear with the school uniform. Mr Cross said he thought that the wearing of jeweUery should be discouraged while the children were in uniform. Most children accepted this, and did not think of wearing it “But you do get the time when you want to

refer to the letter,” he said.

Mr Cress said that he had to have a line drawn so he could ask the pupils to keep the right side of it “Otherwise my life becomes unbearable.” He said that it had been suggested that when rings were worn during sport these could be eaught Mr C. D. Bishop said that if his wife left her rings out of her ears for a week she had an awful job to get them back in. The secretary (Mr P. J. Halligan) said that keeper rings were only necessary while the wound was there. “H you don’t put them in when the hole is first made it just heals up.” The ehairman (Mr B.

Zeff): What if a parent wants his child’s ears drilled. Is it jewellery?’

Mr Cross said there was no objection to schoolgirls having holes in their ears; there was only an objection to their wearing jewellery in school uniform.

Professor A. S. Carrington said that children who already had keeper rings in their ears could be placed at a disadvantage. “Could there be some discretion?” he asked.

The board adopted a resolution that “jewellery must be worn at the discretion of the headmaster.”

“Thanks, I have often wanted to use my discretion in that way,” said Mr Cross.